Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Stephen Guetersloh
Dr. Stephen Guetersloh is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received his bachelor's degree in radiological health engineering from Texas A&M University in 1988, a degree in law from California Western School of Law in 1992, his masters in health physics at Texas A&M in 2000, and his doctorate in radiation physics from Colorado State University in 2003.
Dr. Guetersloh spent several yearswith the Life Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), beginning his career as an experimental particle physicist measuring charge changing fragmentation cross sections due to high-energy heavy ion interactions in elemental targets. From there he transitioned over to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) where he helped design shielding for the new Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world's first x-ray free electron laser.
Before joining the NE faculty at Texas A&M University in 2008, he worked for NASA's Space Radiation Analysis Group at Johnson Space Center as the Space Weather Expert, analyzing dose to crew from solar proton storms and galactic cosmic radiation. During his time at SLAC and NASA, Dr. Guetersloh remained with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Life Science Division as a consultant.
Dr. Guetersloh's research at Texas A&M is focused on the effects of high-energy heavy charged particles. These studies relate to human protection during low Earth orbit and deep space missions, the degradation of electronic components on board satellites, as well as investigations related to the beneficial uses of accelerated ions such as that of non-invasive tumor therapy.
